South China Tiger is extinct in the wild ?

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(06-04-2015, 09:02 PM)'Pckts' Wrote:

(06-04-2015, 02:47 PM)'Siegfried' Wrote: Wouldn't the introduction of P. tigris amoyensis into India put at risk the concept of subspecies purity?

 


 

I'm curious about this as well. I always wonder about the fact that they thought about using an Amur tiger to reintroduce in Caspian Tiger territory,  could you do this with other sub species. We see how close size between Amur and Indian bengals are and morphologically how close they are as well, I wonder if introducing other sub species would ultimately change one sub species to another if they live under the same condintions. 
Just a thought

 

 

Before the human interfence, all tiger subspecies were lived close to each other, and those subspecies who shared a close geographical proximity always mixed with each other.

I am pretty sure that the Indochinese tigers and Bengal tigers who lives in the border of Myanmar and India often mixed with each other.

The South Chinese tigers are very closely related the Indochinese tigers, also quite close to the Bengal tigers, so if they relocated these tigers to India/Myanmar, then it should be natural for them to mixed with the local tigers, since they have done that for million years before the human interference.
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